Quotes About Wisdom

A book is the only immortality.

The book is the only immortality.

The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!

Water the fruit trees and don't water the thorns.

Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace.

If you yearn for holy felicity, shed your arrogance and become a seeker of hearts.

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.

You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches you by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly — not one.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

Is what I say true? Say yes quickly, if you know, if you've known it from before the beginning of the universe.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Everyone knows about the diminishments of growing older, but no one talks about the expanding strengths. Paired with intellect, your intuition grows increasingly stronger and more on point.

Reading is fundamental.

AVOID DUMB PEOPLE. DO NOT TRY TO EDUCATE THEM OR TRY TO PROVE HOW SUPERIOR YOU ARE TO THEM. JUST SMILE AND STAY AWAY FROM THEM.

Only now I imagine myself in the future looking back at myself as I am today. I see how smart, beautiful, and fortunate I am, and all the many options I have open to me. I bring that loving perspective into the present moment and seize all those options in the now.

AVOID DUMB PEOPLE. DO NOT TRY TO EDUCATE THEM OR TRY TO PROVE HOW SUPERIOR YOU ARE TO THEM.

Live your life in the now, because you get to a certain age and you realize, "Wow, that was fast.

But there's a wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.

There's little comfort in the wise.

I was free, yes, but what good was freedom without knowledge?

Hegel claimed that reality was essentially reason and logic – "whatever is rational is real, and whatever is real is rational".

He's old enough to know what's right, but young enough not to choose it. He wise enough to win the world, but fool enough to lose it.